Breastfeeding pics - Curious

It falls under the "I don't give a ****" category. I don't want to see it, but I can skip on by as well.

My personal comfort level was to go in another room to feed my baby. I wasn't even comfortable with a blanket or cover.

The only time I've been uncomfortable in public was when I had my 13 year old son at dinner, and a patron in the next table was feeding a child that could easily eat table food (and walk and talk!), and he kept popping his head off to sit up and look around, and my son just gawked.

I do understand your discomfort with that situation. A teenage boy, an exposed breast, it's expected that he would be interested. But that could have been a great learning tool for you and your son. For one, he could learn that it's bad manners to stare. And for another thing, it would be a good time to talk about nursing, what breasts are made for, the health benefits of breastfeeding, etc. That way, if he grows up and gets married and has children, he has a frame of reference for that. It could be a good thing instead of a shameful thing.

So get off your high horse about how "I don't want to see some women's tit in a restaurant"- you don't want to see it, than don't look. If you do look, remember that we as a society think its okay for Lil Kim to wear only a nipple tassel and not make a stink about it, but your eyes are apparently bleeding from seeing a child getting nutrients from its mother. Oh, why don't you go kick a puppy while your at it.

I'm not debating and I don't really care about your feelings. I'm not trying to win any hearts and minds. Until you have offspring that are being breastfed by their mother, you're not going to understand and I don't expect you to. Breastfeeding moms involuntarily lactate when they hear a baby cry. They have zero control over it. Fathers have an instinctual need to protect their family. If you want to be a master debator or an e-thug on the internet that's fine, just don't do that in person, or if you do make sure the husband isn't around. I couldn't hold back the urge to beat your *kitten* anymore than I could hold back getting a boner watching porn. With as many people around with CWP's these days, you could very likely get a gun in your face.

Where do my feelings come in to it?
More than once I've said I have no worries about it myself.
I have however questioned the arguments used to justify it by some.

I would justify it with "I feel no disgust at seeing the human body, so I don't have an issue with women breast feeding in public."

AS for the rest, which to my mind was rather 'e-thug'ish as you are apparantly not 'debating' (what I thought was the whole point of this thread and participating in it ). If I got a gun in my face for debating this topic 'in real life', I'd expect said parent to be in jail pretty quickly. There's certainly no such thing as a 'CWP' over here; I'm not sure how it works in the US, but I'd expect (quite possibly depending on the social standing of both parties) that doing so would even then cause the gun wielder some significant problems - similar with beating someone over questioning whether a specific justification was really relevant; likely to cause all sorts of problems and certainly would be considered 'bad parenting' by a lot of society.

firstsip:
I dunno, I don't make the laws .
Here in the UK it's not only allowed, but there is actually 'protection' for people that do it - owners of restaurants etc do not have a choice and can be prosecuted if they do not allow it.
I would presume places that don't like it in the US don't like it for the same reason they don't like seeing an exposed female nipple when there isn't a baby present.

I said if you walked up to someone in real life and said you were offended by them breastfeeding in public... and it would be a an instinctive response, no different than a mother responding to a baby crying by lactating. Just don't do it and you'll be fine.

I don't see where you've said that?
And I don't see why you'd quote my post when saying that, as I've never said that's something I would do, I've actually suggested my feelings were the opposite of that?

Oh and to add more 'debate' - I don't really like the argument "If you haven't got kids...", purely because that too can be reversed to "if you've got kids, your view is going to be biased...". And far, far too often it seems people justify bad choices with that sort of thing - ie "oh yes, we don't let little johnny outside for more than half an hour a day because of all the dangers; you'd understand if you had kids!"

Nice job removing the quote and saying you don't see it.

Nice job removing the quote and saying you don't see it.

Where does that mention being offended by breast feeding in public? Neither my nor your post does.
It was written after my quoted post, which talked about the justifications people use for breastfeeding in public and how they may not add up if you take a step back and consider them.

I've seen plenty of people 'snap' in plenty of situations, regardless of being parents or not - though all too often it does seem that parenthood does help to loosen people's grip on reality unfortunately - but gives me the more respect for those that manage to keep said grip firm.

Breasts are made for one reason - to feed babies.

Breast feeding is a natural thing. So is pissing and sh*tting.
Just because it's natural, doesn't mean it should be made public.

If you want to breast feed at the restaurant, the family bathroom is over there.

If you feel that is mean, then fine - I'll start taking a dump on the table in the restaurant and you better hold your tongue.

Your food is in the toilet. Go eat.

So you can't differentiate a toilet from a bathroom?
Wow, I'd hate to clean your house.

Would you eat your meal in a bathroom? Pretty sure you wouldnt. So why should a baby eat his meal in a bathroom?!